Mama Mia! It’s a Meat Sauce!

Meat sauce is a whatever-you-fee-like sauce. You can chop carrots and onions. Add eggplant and artichoke hearts. Mix in green onions and mushrooms. And what spices do you like? Garlic. Parsely. Basil– you can put any of those and a ton more in the sauce, too.

spaghetti, meat sauce and some parmesan cheese

It’s one of those blank slate dishes that gives you the creativity to make whatever you fee like. I added some milk and worcestershire sauce to this recipe. I had never used either of those ingredients in the meat sauce before and noticed several recipes including them. Some even used cinnamon!

That’s just the veggies. You can use ground beef, chicken, veal or turkey. And then of course there’s traditional marinara or vodka sauce. Choices! choices! choices!

For now though I’ll focus on what I made for this particular sauce, and yes, it’s an Emily original!